Taylor Green still searching for a role

Phoenix -- Two seasons ago, Taylor Green was a hot prospect in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

This year, he enters spring training blocked at every position he plays -- at third base by Aramis Ramirez, second base by Rickie Weeks and first base by Mat Gamel and Corey Hart.

But that doesn't mean he can't still make the team as a bench player. While it's not the ideal, it's a role the 26-year-old is preparing himself for and is hoping he can land in 2013. »Read Full Blog Post

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Who really cares? There's 400 Taylor Green's in MLB. Punch and Judy hitter, barely any pop, medium batting average and plays a few positions. Whoopee. If I were the Crew I'd trade him for a bag of Pork Skins and a Diet Dew and still feel like I ripped the other team off.

Freon, it's not about me. It's about Taylor and while I like him because he's part of my Brewers, he is what he is. Nothing special. Tracker, figure out what 3 HR's in 78 games equates to over a 162 game season. Then tell me he has "pop". I know all teams need their role players, but that's all he is. He'll never be anything more than a "semi" decent option off the bench or a pretty decent AAA player. He has enough of a track record to bear that out.

It's your initial comment that sucks out loud. "Who really cares?" Taylor Green certainly does. He's trying to find a way to get better every day to contribute to the team which we all love. That's commendable. His talent level, wherever one thinks that level is at, isn't really the point of the post. Todd is highlighting a player on the fringe.

Freon, When I said who cares, it was who cares in that this is the first couple of days of spring training and one of the very first blog posts of the spring, we're talking about Taylor Green? Really? We've all been dying for spring training to start and waiting out this crappy winter and one of the first posts from Arizona is about Taylor Green, a marginal at best, major leaguer. That's all. The who cares part wasn't aimed at Taylor Green himself, it was the choice of blog posts to start spring. This must be the slowest Brewer day in history if we're posting a "fluff piece" about a guy who has just as much of a shot of being in AAA or on a different major league roster as he does of being on our own.

Young players need to play every day. Green is a great example of that. Green is purely an insurance policy at this point. His bench production will not likely exceed a comparable veteran signing. If they end up trading Aram for any reason, Green is the only legitimate option, though, so I don't see how you can just jettison him either.

I'd suggest Alex Gonzalez may play a fair amount of 3rd base this year . . . as I'm also predicting a DL stint for ARam at some point this year given his history. Hope he can replicate last year though.

Thought the same thing EM. The Cubs wrote Ramirez off after 2011, of course like usual the Cubs were wrong. But they say it's better to get rid of a guy a year early rather than a year late. Green's chance may come sooner rather than later depending on what an aging Ramirez has got left.

Green had some big years in the minors, but he was never projected as an every day player on a contending team. Guys like him need to take full advantage of every opportunity. He failed to do that last year and even his AAA numbers dropped off. I doubt the Brewers see him as a future starter. He'll have to show he can come off the bench and be a tough out. It also wouldn't hurt if he showed he could fill in in the OF.

Taylor Green's career is very similar to Casey McGehee prior to getting a chance with the Brewers. Hope when he gets his next chance, he can take advantage of it like CM did. Ultimately, CM was a very productive MLB player for two years somehow and then really fell off.

Casey took advantage of the pathetic hitting Bill Hall and took over at 3rd. He came out of nowhere and had 2 really decent seasons. Funny how he ended up playing two months for the Yankees. Green may not get a chance to play full-time this year, but needs to make the best of his opportunities, just like Gamel should.

Well, my comment on the real problem certainly went nowhere. I'm close to being ready to bet that our second baseman flunks the test again. I hope I'm wrong. I don't understand the allegiance on this blog to RW year after year after year, when he has shown that he is only marginally a ML player. Again, I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.